Often "video game" is taken in a narrow sense to mean those games played on consoles for television and similar handhelds, with computer games and coin-operated arcade games treated separately.
This is because the early games of these three categories were usually very different.
However, now there is considerable similarity between them, and the same game may appear on devices in different categories.
See history of the video game for more information.

Below is an alphabetized listing of the main genres of video games and some examples of games for each genre.
This list is by no means complete or comprehensive.
Many of these categories are somewhat overlapping.
GTA, for example, is an adventure, a shooter and 2D or 3D depending on version.